🔗 Derek Peden - Posts need to be more specific
I do the same thing. Sometimes I am so cryptic that when I revisit an old entry - I have no idea what was about. So yes - I understand.
That said - not sure I am going to change that much. Rightly or wrongly.
On Bluesky: I can’t tell you how tired I am of copying and pasting the same text into five different silos. When will this ridiculous system that claims to be the web, get its shit together and start acting like the web (ie interop). #
This is one reason I use 🔗 Micro.Blog for 🖇️John.Philpin.com
Straight from the presidential playbook : When in trouble, distract the voters away from your own performance by an act of war. This time it’s the people of Venezuela who are paying the price.
🔗 Scripting News: I’m never too old to make a young developer’s mistake.
Do it myself … and I’m not a developer.
I don’t particularly bother myself about the word of the year … nor the colour (Pantone … please take note).
But ~ interesting to see the narrative over the ‘20s
🔗 Every Word of the Year; According to Dictionaries (2020-2025)
🔗 Way Yuhl - Is Trump purpsefully trying to crash the US economy?
Hard to disagree with the logic.
Originally on TikTok … arrived via Substack
🔗 The wonderful life of Santos=Dumont and his Aerial Dinner Parties
This takes High Tops to a whole new level.
Pun intended.
(Unless at a bar - ‘high tops’ are not places that Jax and I frequent)
🔗 The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
It’s McSweeney, so …
I am one of those ‘em dash’ - AI pundits.
‘BA’ - I rarely saw an em dash in the words that I read - and I read a lot.
‘AA’ era - em dashes are everywhere
Either
a lot of people recently attended writing courses OR
they are using AI
Is there a third option?
look to your left, then to your right. A hundred percent of those people are slathering me across sentences like adding more cheese to a risotto that’s already drowning in parmesan—without tasting, without thinking, without remorse.
What Om Said
🔗 What is Instagram’s Adam Mosseri really saying in his year-end memo?
And Then What Ben Said
🔗 What is Instagram’s Adam Mosseri really saying in his year-end memo?
Reminds me - I should export my Instagram feed into John.philpin.com
🔗 What if Ed Zitron is an optimist?
Transformative innovation is priced in to the Big Tech stocks including their legacy businesses, and there’s only so much remaining crime that they can use to fill in the gaps between investor expectations and what they can realistically deliver. Yes, buying a gilded ballroom for the President of the USA will help them get away with more crime for longer, but in the absence of newly created value they can’t keep extracting more and more. The disruption from the coming AI crash could result in a decline in some other revenue streams previously considered safe.
💬 Don Marti